SARGE

The masculine urge to wear pretty things and act feminine.

It's totally normal to wear women's clothes and research breast forms and practice walking in heels.... Right guys?... ^Guys?^

My guess?

Lit room: lots of things scattered around, colors, visual noise, over stimulating

Dark room: dark, not very visible, less/no noise, not (necessarily as) overstimulating

I mean, after a certain point, yes.

Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says "were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils"

The second frog turns to the first and says "you're being alarmist, things aren't that bad."

This sounds like the second frog.^‡^

It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it's certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life...

You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.

I'm not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, "any day now they'll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)" and no end of bullshit about how "mentally ill" and "unstable" they supposedly are.

Besides, if my choices are "concentration camp v0.95" and "best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo" then I know which choice I'm making.

You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I'm a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.

^‡^(frogs don't actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)

I'm not bi but I like frogs...

So.... I have nothing here. I'm at a ~~:.|:;~~

My state surprised me during covid.

It's not surprising me now...

And what about very old fiends?

Well I know who I think I am.

In a similar vein, by one of my favorite music-ish channel:

How rap sounds to non English speakers: https://youtu.be/BdOtR2A5agc

The only good authoritarianism is their authoritarianism.

I got banned for "abusing the report function" from one instance.

Then I watched a mod war as several mods started banning/unbanning over the course of a few days.

I just made a new account on a different instance.

I guess reporting obvious transphobia was a hot topic about two years ago to some mods.

I'll take a doodle snake with angry eyebrows over the most complex fantasy diorama you can churn out any day of the week.

You're still more patient Than I.

It's great that they're rational enough to change their views in the face of evidence, even if it takes more evidence than it usual.